Sally Sideswipe is Pulsar Pureheart's [link] "vehicle pilot" identity. She is arguably one of the world's best automotive racers. She is also a natural in defensive and evasive driving tactics.

Sally can drive almost any land vehicle, but she is also a gifted helicopter and aircraft pilot. She is also a skilled mechanic, occasionally customizing her cars in her free time when she is not working as office worker Penny Polanski, or crime fighting as superhero Pulsar.

Sally uses her racing skills to pursue fleeing criminals, especially bank robbers and illegal street racers. Her reputation for streets arrests earns her respect for a civilian doing her duty. Sally also participating in local stock car races to earn some extra cash for paying her apartment bills and to expand her crime-fighting arsenal.

There is an invention used by criminals called the "anti-pulsar" beam similar to Kryptonite only instead of weakening her, it robs her out of her powers, which she need to recharge by intense sunlight. Her other identities other than Penny and Pulsar are as invulnerable, nor possesses flight (except for Penelope Phaser), super-speed (also except for Penelope), and super-strength. Also magic is Pulsar's other weakness, although one of her alter egos, Betty Broadway is immune to magic, so Pulsar has to transform into Betty for example to fight magical-based enemies but doing so sacrificing, as stated above, her invulnerability, flight, speed and strength.